Category: L

Lat. In the civil law. To free or set free; to liberate; to give one his liberty. Calvin. In old English law. To deliver, transfer, or hand over. Applied to writs, panels

In old English law. A pound; also a sum of money equal to a pound sterling.

To subsist; to exist; to be sustainable; to be proper or available. Thus the phrase “an action will uot lie” means that an action cannot be sustained, or that there is no

To tie or bind. Rraet. fol. 3096. To enter into a league or treaty. Spelman.

Enamel. Du Cange.

Lat. In the civil law. To cast the burden of a suit upon another: particularly used with reference to a purchaser of property who, being sued in respect to it by a

Lat. The measure of damages.

is an agreement by which one person delivers to another a certain quantity of things which are consumed by the use, under the obligation, by the borrower, to return to him as

Lat. Holding the place. A deputy, substitute, lieuteuant, or representative.

A name given to tbe merchants of Italy, numbers of whom, during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, were established as merchants and bankers in the principal cities of Europe.

The furthest receding point of ebb-tide. Howard v. Ingersoll, 13 How. 417, 14 L. Ed. 1S9. -Low-water mark. See WATER-MARK.

As applied to judicial sales, this term means a sale in mass, as where several distinct parcels of real estate, or several articles of personal property, are sold together for a “lump”

In Scotch law. The ancient duty of this officer was to carry public messages to foreign states, and it Is still the practice of the heralds to make all royal proclamations at

An abbreviation which may stand either for “Lord Chancellor,” “Lower Canada,” or “Leading Cases.”

Lat. In old English law. Defect in the weight of money; lack of weight. This word and the verb “lactarc” are used in an assise or statute of the sixth year of

See LIGAN.

A cant term on the stock exchange for a person unable to meet his engagements.

An expression sometimes applied to a piece of laud belonging to one person uud surrounded by land belonging to other persons, so that it cannot be ap- proached except over their laud.

In criminal law. The wrongful and fraudulent taking and carrying away by one person of the mere personal goods of another from any place, with a felonious intent to convert them to

A lateral road is one which proceeds from some point on the main trunk between its termini; it is but another name for a branch road, both being a part of the